Ivan E. Handwerk, 77, Ex-executive Of Lehigh Conservation Agency

April 07, 1994|The Morning Call

Ivan E. Handwerk, 77, of 7175 Bake Oven Road, Germansville, died Wednesday in Muhlenberg Hospital Center. He was the husband of Christine (Schellhamer) Handwerk. They were married 53 years in December.

A 1938 graduate of Muhlenberg College, he worked for the Lehigh County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Commission in Cetronia for 25 years, starting as an office manager and retiring as executive director in 1983.

Before that he was manager of the Lehigh Exchange feed mill in Germansville for five years and operator of a potato farm in Germansville for five years.

Born in Saegersville, he was a son of the late Eugene and Gertrude (Strauss) Handwerk. He was a member of the Lutheran congregation of Heidelberg Union Church, Slatington.

Handwerk was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II.

In the early 1950s, he was a director for the former Lynn-Heidelberg School District.

Survivors: Wife; son, Eugene I., and a daughter, Delores, wife of Clyde Cunfer, both of Germansville, and four grandchildren.